A fertilized human egg develops into multiple tissues, organs and about 200 distinct cell types. Each cell type has the same genes, but they are expressed differently during development and in mature cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2017
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Scientists headed by Ferran Azorín at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have discovered why histone 1 is a major protection factor against genomic instability and a vital protein. Their study of the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 18, 2017
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Chromatin remodelers—protein machines that pack and unpack chromatin, the tightly wound DNA-protein complex in cell nuclei—are essential and powerful regulators for critical cellular processes, such as replication, recombination ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 15, 2017
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In the cells of palm trees, humans, and some single-celled microorganisms, DNA gets bent the same way. Now, by studying the 3-D structure of proteins bound to DNA in microbes called Archaea, University of Colorado Boulder ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 10, 2017
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The group of Dr. Myriam Calonje Macaya from the University of Seville,and the group of Franziska Turck from the Max Planck Institute have recently published a study in Genome Biology that advances the knowledge of epigenetic ...
Biotechnology
Jul 25, 2017
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If cellular identity is to be maintained, it is important that actively transcribed chromatin stretches remain in a loose configuration as long as these genes are needed. Marc Bühler and his group have uncovered a novel ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 30, 2017
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We humans like to think our DNA is well-protected in the nucleus of each cell. But it's a hard life for the hard-working genetic code.
Cell & Microbiology
May 11, 2017
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Humans have a lot in common with the humble sea sponge, according to research that changes the way we think about animal evolution.
Evolution
Apr 11, 2017
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An animal's reaction to an odor or food or other stimuli depends largely on past experiences and how they have been entered into memory.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 7, 2017
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A group of researchers from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the RAS and Moscow State University, in collaboration with the University of Utah, has for the first time successfully made use of the FRET microscopy method ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 6, 2016
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